Abbott, John, 101
“About Niggers” (Anon.), 164, 168–69
Account of a Voyage Round the World (Carteret), 172
Adam Bede (Eliot), 62
Adventures in the Pacific (Coulter), 76
Adventures of Harry Franco, The (Briggs), 107
Aggasiz, Louis, 159
Albermarle, Duke of, 85
Alcott, Louisa May, 64
American Whig Review, 65
Anatomy of Melancholy, The (Burton), 70
Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 189
“Apple-Tree Table, The,” 102, 118, 148–55, 207, 217. See also Franklin, Benjamin; paratexts
Arcturus, 63
Arnold, Matthew, 122
Arrowhead, 1, 21, 27, 28, 73, 207
Atlantic Souvenir, The, 61
authorship: anonymous, 13–14, 20, 24, 58, 75–76, 86, 102, 141, 205, 211, 229nn31–32; gendered, 46–48, 60; literary creativity and, 18–19, 30, 39–44, 55, 173; marketized, 46, 48–49, 54; pseudonymous, 13, 66, 70, 74–77, 107, 138, 229n34; writerly struggle and, 20, 26–27, 30, 203. See also embedded authorship
Bachman, John, 159
Bacon, Francis, 160
Barron, Henry, Explanation and History of the Mysterious Communion with Spirits, 150–51
“Bartleby, the Scrivener,” 3, 108, 116, 131, 154, 168; first-person narrator, 90–91; genre qualities, 86–89; humor in, 87–88; Melville’s relation to print culture and, 27, 39–41; Occupy and, 205, 216; paper in, 32, 40–44, 54–55; sources, 7, 86. See also post; short story; sketch; tale
Beecher, Henry Ward, 64
“Bell-Tower, The,” 119–20; Curtis on, 95, 97–98, 129–35; republication, 212–14
“Benito Cereno,” 3, 79, 131; Curtis on, 118–19, 125, 131; ethnology in, 164–69; prospection and stasis, 195–202; as psychological thriller, 190, 200; as reprinted text, 171–72, 190–204; suitability for Putnam’s, 125–27. See also narrative perspective; paratexts; short story
Berkshire Hills, 1–2, 31, 148, 185
Berthold, Dennis, 115
Bezanson, Walter, 177–78, 180, 187
Birney, James, 109
Bisco, John, 109
Bleak House (Dickens), 101
Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne), 120–21
Blum, Hester, 78
Bonner, Robert, 64, 176. See also New York Ledger
Boston Atlas, 142
Boston Evening Traveller, 91
Brattle, Thomas, 155
Brewer, Thomas Mayo, 141–45; “The Smithsonian Institution,” 141–42
Brewster, John, 73–74
Briggs, Charles Frederick, 6, 95, 96; The Adventures of Harry Franco, 107; career, 11, 106–7; “Clearing a Stage,” 212; as editor at Putnam’s, 12, 97, 99; “Elegant Tom Dillar,” 212; The Haunted Merchant, 107, 108, 111; on Margaret Fuller, 108–9; Putnam’s founding editorial and, 107, 110–12, 140; rejection of “The Two Temples,” 107–8, 115–17; The Trippings of Tom Pepper, 107, 109, 110; Working a Passage, 107
Broadway Journal, 106, 108–9, 111
Brooklyn Union, 107
Browne, Thomas, 129
Bryant, William Cullen, 2, 59, 104
Bulwer Lytton, Edward, 65, 123; Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy, 115
Bunce & Harrington, 105
Burrill, James, 123
Burton, Robert, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 70
Burton, William Evans, Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor, 211–12
Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, 211
“Cacoethes Scribendi” (Sedgwick), 61, 63
Capron, Eliab, Explanation and History of the Mysterious Communion with Spirits, 150–51
Carson, David, 31
Carson, Thomas, 38
Carteret, Philip, Account of a Voyage Round the World, 172
Castronovo, Russ, 119–20, 124, 128, 134
“Celestial Railroad, The” (Hawthorne), 140
Century Illustrated Magazine, 210
Chacko, David, 179
Chamberlin, Henry, 31
Chamberlin, Joseph, 31
Chesebrough, Caroline, 113
Child, Lydia Maria, 70; “Elizabeth Wilson,” 62
Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 110
Clark, Willis Gaylord, 59
Clay, Henry, 109
clerks, 86–87; in Harper’s, 93
Clough, Arthur, “Letters of Parapidemus,” 101, 115
“Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!” 58, 154; genre and, 66–72. See also sketch; tale
Collins, Wilkie, The Dead Secret, 209
Confidence-Man, The, 96, 172, 174, 206–9; reviews of, 14
Connecticut Centinal, 179
Cook, Sylvia Jenkins, 47
Cooper, James Fenimore, 5; “Old Ironsides,” 74–75; The Red Rover, 139, 151, 170, 189, 211
Cooper, Samuel, 155
Cordell, Ryan, 140
Coulter, John, Adventures in the Pacific, 76
Coverly, Nathaniel, 179
Cozzens, Frederick, 96
Craighead, Robert, 3
Crania Americana (Morton), 158
Cries of London, The (Smith), 189
Curtis, Benjamin, 29
Curtis, Burrill, 120
Curtis, George William, 7, 59, 79, 104, 111, 139, 148; anti-slavery lectures, 123–24; on “The Bell-Tower,” 95, 97–98, 129–35; on “Benito Cereno,” 119–20, 126–27, 163, 202; career as writer, 11, 120–22; compared to Melville, 121–22; dual role at Harper’s and Putnam’s, 103–6; “The Duty of the American Scholar to Politics and the Times,” 124–25; “Editor’s Easy Chair” at Harper’s, 103, 128; editorship at Putnam’s, 12, 95, 106, 116, 118, 180; family background, 120; financial investment in Putnam’s, 208–9; The Howadji in Syria, 103, 120; literary judgement, 124–25; Lotus-Eating, 121; Nile Notes of a Howadji, 95, 103, 120, 130; picturesque tradition and, 128; The Potiphar Papers, 114, 123, 212; Prue and I, 101, 114, 121, 213–14; publishing advice on Melville, 207–8; publishing advice to William Douglas O’Connor, 104–6; reviews Israel Potter, 180–81; Trumps, 123; uses Bartleby as a character, 121; Washington Irving, 211
Cuyler, Theodore, 143
Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor (Burton), 211–12
Dalton, Massachusetts: Melville’s visit to, 1–2, 21, 30; paper mills in, 30–32
Dana, Charles A., 97, 100, 180, 213
Dana, Richard Henry, 120
Darwin, Charles, 77–78, 84, 85, 169; The Origin of Species, 169; The Voyage of the “Beagle,” 77, 85
Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil (Willis), 59
Dead Secret, The (Collins), 209
Defoe, Daniel, 59
Delano, Amasa, 163–65; Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, 171, 190, 192–93
Democratic Review, 63
Dewey, Rodney H., 136
Dexter, George T., Spiritualism, 150
Dickens, Charles, 62, 65, 87, 113, 123; Bleak House, 101; clerks in, 87; Household Words, 118; “Hunted Down,” 64; Sketches by Boz, 75; sketch tradition and, 44, 72, 74, 89
Dillingham, William, 8
Dimock, Wai-Chee, 216
Disraeli, Benjamin, 123
“Dividing Line between Federal and Local Authority, The” (Douglas), 113, 232n39
Dix, Joshua, 79, 95–96, 98, 117–19
Dix & Edwards, 96, 118, 124, 138, 191, 207–9; books published, 15; purchase of Putnam’s, 100, 105, 117, 180. See also Putnam’s Monthly Magazine
Dollimore, Jonathan, 18
Douglas, Stephen A., “The Dividing Line between Federal and Local Authority,” 113, 232n39
Douglass, Frederick, 159; The Heroic Slave, 192
Dowgray, John, 112
Dream Life (Mitchell), 103
Dred (Stowe), 62
“Duty of the American Scholar to Politics and the Times, The” (Curtis), 124–25
Duyckinck, Evert, 50, 63, 115, 213; on Irving’s influence on Melville, 64; lampooned by Briggs, 109, 111; Melville’s letters to, 2, 4, 9
Duyckinck, George, 213
Dwight, Timothy, Travels in New England and New York, 149
Eaton, Joseph, 214
Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, 77
Edmonds, John Worth, Spiritualism, 150
Edwards, Arthur, 97, 117–18, 208
Edwards, Mary Bercaw, 172
electromagnetism, 141–52
Eliot, George, 57, 75; infanticide in Adam Bede, 62
“Elizabeth Wilson” (Child), 62
Elliott, Harrison, 30
embedded authorship, 15, 17; definition, 8–13; innovation and, 215–16; Melville’s, 19–23, 25, 30, 53–55, 171–75, 203–4
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 5, 104, 120
Emerson’s Magazine and Putnam’s Monthly, 209
Emerson’s United States Magazine, 209
Emery, Allan, 143
“Encantadas, The,” 63, 102, 154, 168–69; “Elizabeth Wilson” and, 63; genre in, 72–85; paratextual status, 137–39; “Tortoise Hunting Adventure” and, 73–74. See also narrative perspective; short story; sketch
“Escorted Lady, The” (Leslie) 61
ethnology and ethnography, 155–69
Explanation and History of the Mysterious Communion with Spirits (Capron and Barron), 150–51
Fable for Critics, A (Lowell), 111
Faraday, Michael, 143
Felski, Rita, 19
Fern, Fanny, 7, 61, 177; Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio, 59
Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio (Fern), 59
Field, D. D., A History of the County of Berkshire, Massachusetts, 149
Fields, James T., 111
Fourdrinier papermaking machine, 33–34
Fox, George, 161–62
Fox, John, 151
Fox sisters, 149–51
Franco, Harry. See Briggs, Charles Frederick
Franklin, Benjamin: in “The Apple-Tree Table,” 151–55; in Israel Potter, 146–48, 178, 187; in “The Lightning-Rod Man,” 141–45; paper and paper mills, 37
Fraser’s Magazine, 77
Fremont, John, 123
Friends’ Review, 76
Fuller, Margaret, 98, 108, 120, 128; Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 108
Fuller, Wayne, 38
Garcha, Amanpal, 81
Gardner, Jared, 75
Garrison, William Lloyd, 109, 110
“’Gees, The,” 155–63, 168–69, 207; ethnology in, 161–63. See also paratexts
Genealogies of the Potter Families and Their Descendants in America (Potter), 190
Genette, Gérard, 137, 139, 140, 149
genre: Hawthorne’s impact on, 60; magazine conventions, 13, 58; Melville’s adaptations of, 58, 85–94; Poe’s impact on, 60; unclear boundaries of, 56–57. See also short story; sketch; tale
Gliddon, George, 156–59; Types of Mankind, 156–60
Godey’s Lady’s Book, 58, 60, 91; Melville in, 4, 209
Godwin, Parke, 7, 96, 100, 116, 123, 158; political views, 125–26, 233n57
Good Gray Poet, The (O’Connor), 104
Grace Church, New York, 107
Graham, George R., 65
Graham’s Magazine, 60, 65, 179, 211
Greenspan, Ezra, 102
Greylock, Geoffrey, 28
Hale, Sarah Josepha, 60
Hall, James, Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the West, 172
Hamilton, Kristie, 65
Harper, Fletcher, 95, 99, 103, 105–6, 113
Harper & Brothers 2, 5, 29, 73, 102, 104, 106, 112, 121
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 2, 5, 227n4; characteristics compared to Putnam’s, 99–103; clerks in, 93; factory tours in, 44–45; Galapagos Islands in, 76; as national magazine, 112–14; New York Times on, 24; production standards, 64–65, 232n40; sentimental fiction in, 66–67; science and, 161
Haunted Merchant, The (Briggs) 107
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 2, 4, 5, 104; The Blithedale Romance, 120–21; “The Celestial Railroad,” 140; first-person narrators, 90; The Isle of the Cross and, 27; letters from Melville, 13, 15, 21–23; “The Minster’s Black Veil,” 79; on Moby-Dick, 21; The Scarlet Letter and, 180; “Young Goodman Brown,” 206. See also genre
Hawthorne, Sophia, 29
“Hawthorne and his Mosses,” 64, 131–32, 218
Henkin, David, 36–37
Henry, Joseph, 142–44
Heroic Slave, The (Douglass), 192
Hillard, O. G., and Melville obituary, 16–17
historicist criticism, 17–18
History of the County of Berkshire, Massachusetts, A (Field), 149
Hoadley, John, 68
Hoffman, E. T. A, 59
Holden’s Dollar Magazine, 13, 50, 106
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 2
Household Words (Dickens), 118
Howadji in Syria, The (Curtis), 103, 120
Howells, William Dean, 219
Hubbel, Mary, 65
Hunt, Edward Bissell, 142
“Hunted Down” (Dickens), 64
Hurlbut, Thomas, 38
Hutchinson, Ellen M., Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, 213–14
“I and My Chimney,” 119, 149, 207; Curtis on, 119, 125
Idiot, The, 179
Independent, 107
Irving, Washington, 83, 89, 126; “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” 59, 81, 180; Melville on, 64; “Rip Van Winkle,” 59, 180; reputation, 63; The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., 75, 81, 170, 176, 189; sketch tradition and, 44, 59
Isle of the Cross, The, 5, 27, 45, 173
Israel Potter, 102, 117, 149, 196, 202; book preface, 187–89; departure from Trumbull’s narrative, 178–79, 181; gestation, 173–74, 177–78; Melville’s description of, 57; Putnam’s review, 180–81; published by Dix & Edwards, 15; as reprinted text, 171–90. See also Franklin, Benjamin; narrative perspective; paratexts
Jackson, Leon: social disembedding, 8–10; historicist criticism and, 17
Jewett, Charles Coffin, 142
John Marr and Other Sailors, 210–11; review, 14
Johnson, Rossiter, Little Classics, 212–13
Johnson, Samuel, 98
Johnson, Theodore, 65
Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean (Porter), 172
Karcher, Carolyn, 156–57
Kemble, Fanny, 2
Kendall, Charles, 209
Kime, Wayne R., 129
Kingsley, Charles, 123
Knickerbocker, 63, 64, 106, 109–10
“Knocker, The” (O’Connor), 106
Kulcsar, Alexander, 179
Lawyer’s Story, The (Maitland), 7, 86, 92, 171, 173
“Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The” (Irving), 59, 81, 180
Leslie, Eliza, 65; “The Escorted Lady,” 61; Pencil Sketches, 59; “The Travelling Tin-man,” 60
“Letters of Parapidemus” (Clough), 101, 115
Lever, Charles, 65
Levine, Robert S., 183–84, 188, 192
Leyda, Jay, 31
Liberator, 109
Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Stedman and Hutchinson), 213–14
Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter (Trumbull), 171–72, 178, 184–86, 188, 190
“Lightning-Rod Man, The,” 116; electricity in, 144–46, 148; republication, 211; source for, 149; “The Travelling Tin-man” and, 63. See also Franklin, Benjamin; paratexts
Lilly, Thomas, 113
Lind, Jenny, 115
Literary World, The, 63, 139, 150
Little Classics (Johnson), 212–13
Living Age, The, 76
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 2, 5, 64, 104
Lossing, Benson J., 113
Lotus-Eating (Curtis), 121
L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 164
Low De Vinne, Theodore, 210–11
Lowell, James Russell, 110; A Fable for Critics, 111
Mackenzie, Henry, 62
Macready, Charles, 115
magazines: digitization and emphasis on reading 6; in the 1850s, 5–6, 24, 58, 71, 224n1; market strategies, 64–65; miscellaneous nature, 58, 71. See also individual magazine titles
Magnalia Christi Americana (Mather), 149
Maitland, James, The Lawyer’s Story, 7, 86, 92, 171, 173
Marvel, Ik. See Mitchell, Donald G.
materiality: context and, 7, 18; of Melville’s relation to writing, 1–3, 10–11, 20, 22–23, 84, 188–89; of print culture, 11–12, 25–26, 139; of Putnam’s, 6–7, 209
Mather, Cotton, Magnalia Christi Americana, 149, 153
Mathews, Cornelius, 57, 63, 115; lampooned by Briggs, 109, 111
Matthews, Joshua, 143
Matthiessen, F. O., 122
McClay, Wilfred, 122
McGill, Meredith: on Harper’s and Putnam’s, 102–3; historicist criticism and, 17–18; on reprinting, 5–7, 174–75, 191
Melville, Allan (brother), 187, 208
Melville, Augusta (sister), 31, 69, 74, 187
Melville, Catherine (sister), 74
Melville, Elizabeth (wife), 1, 16, 27–29
Melville, Frances (sister), 1
Melville, Gansevoort (brother), 28, 41
Melville, Helen (sister), 31, 74
Melville, Herman: afterlife of magazine writing, 206, 211–14; on Curtis, 122; as editor, 11, 17, 171–204; income from writing, 2, 12, 73, 177, 223n17; lecture circuit, 121–22, 210; literary market and, 15–16, 46–49, 54, 84; longevity of work, 17–19, 91–92, 164–65, 205, 214–18; mother’s concern over, 28; newspaper juvenilia, 57; non-literary jobs, 16, 27, 41, 121; paper and, 22–23, 32, 41; print mediators and, 10, 210–11; reception and reputation, 14–17, 26–29, 96–97, 216, 223n18; sketches for Yankee Doodle, 57–58, 227n3. See also individual titles of works
Melville, Maria (mother), 1, 28
Miller & Curtis, 209
Milton, John, 125
“Minister’s Black Veil, The” (Hawthorne), 79
Miss Leslie’s Magazine, 60
Mitchell, Donald G. (Ik Marvel), 59, 103–4; Dream Life, 103; Reveries of a Bachelor, 103–4
Mitford, Mary Russell, 44
Moby-Dick, 4, 122, 172, 199, 205, 214–15; paper and, 37–38; the post and, 37; publishing of, 2–3, 54, 221n2
Morton, Samuel, Crania Americana, 158–59
Mott, Frank Luther, 103
Mumford, Lewis, 8
Murray, John, 85
Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (Delano), 171, 190, 192–93
narrative perspective, 72, 156; in “Benito Cereno,” 163–69, 194–95, 200; in “The Encantadas,” 77–85; gentleman narrator, 59, 68, 86, 91; in Israel Potter, 181–83; in “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,” 51–54
National Era, 76
Neal, John, 120
Newcomes, The (Thackeray), 67
Newhouse, Anthony, 37
New York Citizen, 179
New York Commercial Advertiser, 179
“New-York Daguerreotyped” (Anon.), 86, 108, 114
New York Ledger, 176; payment to authors, 64
Nile Notes of a Howadji (Curtis), 95, 104
Nott, Josiah, 156–60, 169; Types of Mankind, 156–60
O’Brien, Fitz-James, 85, 113; Putnam’s essay on Curtis and Melville, 122–23, 124, 214; Putnam’s essay on Melville, 29, 44, 86, 129, 132, 134; Putnam’s essay on Mitchell, 103–4
O’Connor, George William, 181
O’Connor, William Douglas, 96, 104, 121; The Good Gray Poet, 104; “The Knocker,” 106; “What Cheer,” 105, 126
“Old Ironsides” (Cooper), 74–75
Olmstead, Frederick Law, 100, 117, 118, 123, 180, 208–9
Origin of Species, The (Darwin), 169
O’Sullivan, John Louis, 63
Otter, Samuel, 8
paper: Carlyle on, 26; fine quality, 32, 38–39; manufacture of, 1–3, 22–23, 31–37; postal service and, 37–38; rag supply, 37–39. See also “Bartleby, the Scrivener”; “Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids, The”
“Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids, The,” 2, 24–25, 72, 215–16; allegory in, 46–48; “Cacoethes Scribendi” and, 63; paper and papermaking in, 20, 26, 31, 33–38, 42, 45, 48 51, 53–55, 84, 189; print culture and, 49, 54–55. See also narrative perspective
paratexts, 136–41, 235n5; in “The Apple-Tree Table,” 150–55; in “Benito Cereno,” 163–69; in “The ’Gees,” 156–63; in Israel Potter, 141–43, 235n7; in “The Lightning-Rod Man,” 141–43
Parker, Hershel, 16, 74, 141, 187; on Melville after Pierre, 27–29, 31
Pearce, James, 144
Pencil Sketches (Leslie), 59
Perkins, Frederick Beecher, 95, 100, 158
Perry, Matthew, 160–61
Peterson, T. B., 189
Phegley, Jennifer, 113
Philleo, Calvin, 66
“Piazza, The,” 207
Piazza Tales, The, 91, 96, 119, 138–39, 207; removal of attribution to “The Encantadas,” 75; review of, 163; titling of, 57
picturesque tradition, 122, 128, 234n64
Pidgeon, Daniel, 33
Pierre, 5, 10, 74, 91, 122; reception, 14, 27–29
Pioneer; or California Monthly Magazine, The, 76
plagiarism, 173–75
Poe, Edgar Allan, 7, 91, 104, 106, 190; Broadway Journal and, 109; as editor, 10–11, 206; first-person narrators, 90; “The Purloined Letter,” 79
Polk, James, 109
“Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs,” 72, 211
Porter, David, Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean, 172
post: postal reform, 36–37; post office in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” 41–42
Post-Lauria, Sheila, 69, 102, 178
Potiphar Papers, The (Curtis), 114, 123, 212
Potter, Charles Edward, Genealogies of the Potter Families and Their Descendants in America, 190
Price, Leah, 3
Prime, William Cowper, 67
Providence Journal, 104
Prue and I (Curtis), 101, 114, 121, 213–14
“Purloined Letter, The” (Poe), 79
Putnam, George Palmer, 5, 10, 57, 65, 78, 99, 142, 177, 189; editorship and ownership of Putnam’s, 97, 100, 102, 105, 180; rejects “The Two Temples,” 114–17. See also Putnam’s Monthly Magazine; Wiley & Putnam
Putnam’s Monthly Magazine: American content, 65, 78, 99; bankruptcy, 208–9; characteristics compared to Harper’s, 99–103; cosmopolitanism of, 115–16; founding, 5–7; founding editorial, 79, 87, 107, 110–12; letters from potential contributors, 56; New York City as subject, 114; New York Times on, 24; ownership and management, 100, 117–18; science in, 78–79. See also Briggs, Charles Frederick; Curtis, George William; Putnam, George Palmer
Quincy, Edmund, Wensley, 101
Redburn, 2
Red Rover, The (Cooper), Melville’s review of, 139, 151, 170, 189, 211
Renker, Elizabeth, 27
reprinting, 5–7, 18, 21, 77, 140; in Harper’s, 44, 65, 99–100, 103, 130, 161; surrogate reprinting, 171, 175, 203; unauthorized reprinting, 189. See also “Benito Cereno”; Israel Potter
Reveries of a Bachelor (Mitchell), 103
Rice, Alexander, 209
Richards, T. Addison, 160
Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy (Bulwer Lytton), 115
Ripley, George, 213
“Rip Van Winkle” (Irving), 59, 180
“Rip Van Winkle’s Lilac,” 64
Rothschild, Ida, 132
Salem Register, 211
Salmagundi, 59
Sampson & Low, 115
Santayana, George, 122
Sawaya, Francesca, 9
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 2, 60; “Cacoethes Scribendi,” 61
sentimental fiction, 61–62, 66–70, 101–2, 122–23, 178–79, 215
serialization, 139, 176–77, 190–91, 197–98, 202, 237n14
Seward, William, 76
Shaw, Anna, 123
Shaw, Francis George, 123, 208
Shaw, Lemuel, 4, 27, 28, 57, 192, 207–8
short story, 13, 20, 71–72; “Bartleby, the Scrivener” as, 89–94; development of, 57, 59–60, 212–13, 218, 227n10; “The Encantadas” as, 81–82; sketch and tale and, 60–62
sketch: in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” 88–89; in “Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!” 67; development of, 59–61; in Dickens, 89; in “The Encantadas,” 74–76, 78–82; in Harper’s, 70–71
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., The (Irving), 75, 81, 171, 176, 189
Sketches by Boz (Dickens), 75; “I and My Chimney” and, 127
Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the West (Hall), 172
Smith, John Thomas, The Cries of London, 189
Smith, Matthew Hale, 107
“Smithsonian Institution, The” (Brewer), 141–43
Smytthe, J., Jr., 101
Southworth, E. D. E. N., 7, 61, 64, 158, 177
Spanos, William, 8
Spiritualism (Edmonds and Dexter), 150
spiritualism, 149–55
“Spiritual Materialism” (Anon.), 149–53
Stedman, Edmund C., Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, 213–14
Steele, Richard, 59
Sterne, Laurence, Tristram Shandy, 70
Stewart, Charles, Visit to the South Seas, in the U.S. Ship Vincennes, during the Years 1829 and 1830, 172
Stewart, Tertullus, 27, 73–74, 207
Stone, David M., 65
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 61, 64, 218–19; infanticide in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dred, 62
Street, Alfred Billings, 27
Strother, David Hunter, 70–71, 113
Sturges, Samuel, 38
Swann, Charles, 198
Swift, Jonathan, 59
tale: in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” 89–94; in “Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!” 70; development of, 57, 59–62; in Poe, 190–91
Tanyol, Denise, 77
Taylor, Zachary, 57–58
Thackeray, William, 65, 113, 124; The Newcomes, 67; sketch tradition and, 44, 72, 74
Ticknor, William, 10
Timoleon, 211
Toal, Catherine, 203
Todorov, Tzvetan, 190, 194, 198
“Travelling Tin-man, The” (Leslie), 60
Travels in New England and New York (Dwight), 149
Trinity Church, New York, 107
Trippings of Tom Pepper, The (Briggs), 107, 109
Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 70
Trow, John, 7
Trumbull, Henry, 179; The Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter, 171–72, 178, 184–86, 188, 190
Trumps (Curtis), 123
Turgenev, Ivan, 57
Twain, Mark, 75
“Two Temples, The,” 72–73, 192; rejection by Putnam’s, 107–8, 114–17, 177
Typee, 2, 3, 122, 129, 156, 199; sources, 172; writing of, 41
Types of Mankind (Nott and Gliddon), 156–60; Harper’s reviews, 159–60; Putnam’s review, 158–59
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 62, 218
Underwood, Francis, 75
“Virginian Canaan, The” (Strother), 70–71
Visit to the South Seas, in the U.S. Ship Vincennes, during the Years 1829 and 1830 (Stewart), 172
Voyage of the “Beagle,” The (Darwin), 77, 85
Washington Irving (Curtis), 211
Weinstein, Cindy, 47
Wensley (Quincy), 101
Western Literary Messenger, 211
“What Cheer” (O’Connor), 105, 126
Whig Review, 7
White-Jacket, 2, 129, 151, 192
Whitman, Walt, 104
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 65; Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil, 59
Winter, Aaron, 35
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Fuller), 108
Working a Passage (Briggs), 107
Young, Philip, 31
Young America, 109–10